Cambodia

Cambodia
Date(s): September 9-11, 2015. Album by David Clement. 1 - 70 of 70 Total. 31 Visits.

1 dinner at Lotus Blanc Hotel after our late night arrival	2 early the next morning at Angkor Wat; we got picked up by our guide, David, at 5am	3 nice reflection pic of the site	4 it's the largest religious monument in the world
5 the French did the restorations	6	7	8 countless intricate carvings like this
9 originally founded as a Hindu temple for the Khmer Empire, gradually transforming into a Buddhist temple toward the end of the 12th century	10 the complex was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II	11	12
13	14 at the side	15	16 many monkey carvings; there was a legend - relayed to us by our guide - about them saving a princess, which I can't remember
17 David, our guide	18 on the second level	19 about to lineup to climb to the to level	20 we were the first ones of the day to go up! These are all the guides down below
21 on the top level of the complex	22 with my pass to the top; they limit the number of people that can be up there at once	23	24
25	26	27 David again; we booked him online for $140 USD each for a two day tour of Siem Reap province	28 wow, many more monkeys
29	30	31	32 leaving the Angkor Wat site
33 boxed breakfast from our hotel	34 small temple on the way to Ta Prohm	35	36
37	38 at Ta Prohm, used in filming the Tomb Raider movie	39	40 built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries; getting overrun with strangler trees now
41	42 Takeo	43 at top of Takeo	44 Buddha face on the road
45 at Bayon Temple in Angkor Thom	46	47	48 not clear if these are Buddha or not; many Buddha faces in the area were destroyed though
49	50 lunch in Siem Reap	51 some time to relax at the hotel pool in the afternoon	52 storm that prevented us from going to Siem Reap night market
53 hotel breakfast; noodle soup was always great everywhere we went	54	55 hotel lobby; so empty because September is rainy season and not many tourists. All the staff still works though	56
57 second day of Siem Reap tour with David; at floating village	58 we took a boat trip to pass the houses; the people subsist largely on fish they catch	59 2 million out of the 14 million in Cambodia live right on the water!	60 sometimes they get flooded
61 entering Beng Mealea Temple; landmines are now gone, thankfully	62	63 we were a bit surprised by exactly how unrestored this was	64 there were loose pieces lying around, some with (new) write writing on them to keep track of which is which
65	66 main viewpoint of the temple	67	68 in a market that sold just about everything
69 so many fruits	70 crickets

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